Hey all! Welcome to Breaking Bread: Koinonia!
This blog is simply a forum to share and receive edification with my brothers and sisters from all around the world! We are a community that builds, encourages and teachers one another as the Bible says we should. (Heb 10:24-25, Heb 3:13, 1 These 5:11)
Personally I was a churchgoer for a very long time but more recently found the difference between being a religious Christian vs being a follower of Christ. I didn’t know there was a difference till I knew! Haha.
Since then, I have been seeking greater transformation as that’s the mandate we all have as born again Christians, we need to look more and more like Christ everyday. This is not a statement of being “good” at it or being “better” at it than any one, it is more a statement of realizing that is the goal, and recognizing the need to press into that.
One day, I was listening to a word online from Brother Jamal from Rising Ground Church and he asked a question about what did Jesus think like. About a week before that message, I got a prompt about posting the message in this blog, so I knew it wasn’t a coincidence that a ministry I followed very closely just posted a 10 minute video with an open ended question that he didn’t conclusively answer at the end! It’s like he asked so I could tell him what was put on my heart to share.
The message being Phil 4:4 – it came to me on a random day and in a way I hadn’t considered it before. Basically it came to me with the analogy of the internet. As you can imagine, the internet is a pretty wild place, there are a lot of content that ranges from zero to infinity! For example Instagram. Your IG page tends to show similar content to what you post (mine is @AyoOluwaDeji!) but even then there are random stuff that comes in.
So imagine this verse as a filter that once you swipe up on a post, it runs it through these criteria:
And now, dear brothers and sisters, one final thing. Fix your thoughts on what is true, and honorable, and right, and pure, and lovely, and admirable. Think about things that are excellent and worthy of praise.
Is it true (or is it a scandalous gossip video about someone’s relationship and drama?) Is it honorable, is this thing right? Is this thing pure? Is it lovely to think on? Is it something worth admiring and emulating?
At some point, depending on the content it will run into one of these and will have to be dropped. Then after sometime, the algorithm on IG or TikTok will figure out that you don’t watch those videos and it will stop coming to you.
In that same way, if you continuously meditate on this scripture, it will over time change your thinking and perspective to automatically filter out these kinds of thoughts! Pretty cool ammrite? Sometimes one of the things I do when a scripture comes to me is to search it out on BibleHub and read it in all its different translations so I get a robust meaning of the verse.
I find it helpful, especially for meditation; so I recorded this verse in the 33 translations I could find so I would listen to it in the mornings when I meditate.
Here is it if you find it helpful as well!
